and expanding, and eating the ee came W 
ow. 
Il. GEOLOGY, 
1. Voleanie Action on Hawaii; by Rev. T. Coaw, (letter dated, Hilo, 
Oct. 22, 1856.)—During the whole of the past year, Lua Pele, (Kilauea) 
has been getting more and more profoundly asleep. A little sluggish 
lava is found in the great pit of Halemaemae (the old lake in the south- 
east part of the pit) and the steam issues from a thousand vents, But 
there is no subsidence of the floor of the crater. This vast area of hard- 
A fracture or fractures occurred near t mit of the mountain, which 
he terminal point, say five miles down 
and dross deposited on each side of the fractures where the action is 
volcanic vents, incandescent streams were, of course, winding their wa: 
do side o td, 
thicket, contracting 
ithin five miles of 
filo. Now, after you leave the region of open mn 
of the mountain alt inlow appears to be a flow on eg surface. 
the surface flows, 
nding down to the fiery 
ays bd smoke and 
There is no Visi ee 
: ions of the mountain, — 
| had been fractured, ees on the higher regions o t a] m = below, 
2d. Where there 
‘there wil think, alway: be a column of smoke ous Vapor 
